Revisiting 50 years of market-making: The neoliberal transformation of european competition policy

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-44

  Buch Hansen, Hubert ^a   Wigger, Angela ^b  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Competition; Competition policy; Embedded liberalism; Neoliberalism; Regulatory discourses

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649172136     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290903014927     Document Type: Article

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